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Welcome & Introductions
Our Commitments
DMC/RED in PAs Youth Justice System
On the Same Page
Implicit Bias and How to Mitigate Bias
Equity, Equality and Justice
Closure
• Respect the confidentiality of personal information and stories shared here.
OUR COMMITMENTS
• Speak from our own experiences and perspectives.
• Listen with openness to the experiences and perspectives of others, creating supportive space for each person to learn
• Actively resist making assumptions about one another.
• Refrain from fixing, saving, advising, or correcting each other.
• Be mindful of “taking space and making space” to ensure everyone has opportunities to speak and to listen.
• Expect and accept non-closure, because the work of disrupting racism is ongoing.
• Be willing to be challenged to disrupt racist patterns, both by the activities and discussions and by other participants.
ADJUDICATION DISPOSITION
TRANSFER TO ADULT COURT
THE JUVENILE JUSTICE PROCESSKey Decision Points & Pathways Out
ARREST REFERRAL DETENTION PETITION
• Law Enforcement
• Schools• Probation• Child Welfare
• Intake Staff • Judge • Prosecutor • Judge • Judge
✓ Diversion✓ Community
service✓ Youth Court
✓ Diversion✓ Informal
process✓ Consent
Decree
✓ Diversion✓ Release home✓ Alternative to
Detention
✓ Diversion✓ Informal
process✓ Dismissal
✓ Diversion✓ Post-adj✓ ATD✓ Dismissal
✓ Probation✓ Non-secure
placement✓ Non-residential
treatment
CAUTION!DATA ONLY TELLS YOU PART OF A STORY
DETERMINING RACE AND ETHNICITY
TODAY WE ARE VIEWING STATEWIDE DATA
10 DECISION POINTS
HUMANS
Disparities in Adjudication
DiversityThe wide range of national, ethnic, racial and other backgrounds of
U.S. residents and immigrants as social groupings, co-existing in
American culture. The term is often used to include aspects of race,
ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, class and much more.
Source: Institute for Democratic Renewal and Project Change Anti-
Racism Initiative. A Community Builder's Tool Kit.
EthnicityA social construct that divides people into smaller social groups
based on characteristics such as shared sense of group membership,
values, behavioral patterns, language, political and economic
interests, history and ancestral geographical base.
Examples of different ethnic groups are: Cape Verdean, Haitian,
African American (black); Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese (Asian);
Cherokee, Mohawk, Navaho (Native American); Cuban, Mexican,
Puerto Rican (Latino); Polish, Irish, and Swedish (white).
Source: Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell and Pat Griffin, editors. Teaching for
Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook. New York: Routledge.
RaceA social construct that artificially divides people into distinct groups
based on characteristics such as physical appearance (particularly
color), ancestral heritage, cultural affiliation, cultural history, ethnic
classification, and the social, economic and political needs of a
society at a given period of time. Racial categories subsume ethnic
groups.
Source: Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell and Pat Griffin, editors. Teaching for
Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook. New York: Routledge.
Bias- Implicit and ExplicitImplicit Bias: a preference (positive or negative) for a social category that operates outside of our awareness.
The opposite of an explicit bias, which is a conscious preference (positive or negative) for a social category.
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The Stroop Test
State the Color of the Text
Blue
Blue
Green
Black
Red
Green
Blue
Black
Blue
Black
Red
Green
Green
Green
Red
Black
Stroop, J. R. (1935)
SELECTIVE ATTENTION
Research on Bias: Probation Officers
Example: Two 17-year-old boys•No prior criminal history for either one•Both charged with first degree robbery with a firearm
•No injuries in either incident•One case: gas station robbery•Other case: robbery of two motels•One boy was black, the other was white
Ed: “This robbery was very dangerous as Ed confrontedthe victim with a loaded shotgun. He pointed it at thevictim and demanded that he place the money in apaper bag. This appears to be a premeditated andwillful act by Ed….There was an adult quality to thisreferral. In talking with Ed, what was evident was therelaxed and open way he discussed his life style. Theredidn’t seem to be any desire to change. There was noexpression of remorse from the young man. There wasno moral content to his comment.”
Research on Bias: Two 17-Year-Old Boys
Research on Bias: Two 17-Year-Old Boys
Lou: “Lou is the victim of a broken home. He is trying tobe his own man, but…is seemingly easily misled andfollows other delinquents against his better judgment.Lou is a tall, emaciated little boy who is terrified by hispresent predicament. It appears that he is in need ofdrug/alcohol evaluation and treatment.”
Which boy was black and which boy was white?
*two modes of decision-making*
• System 1: Automatic, fast and often unconscious way of thinking; requires
little energy or attention, more potential for biases and systematic errors
• System 2: effortful, slow and controlled way of thinking; less potential for
biases and errors
Fast and slow thinking
How Can We Mitigate the Effects of Bias?
• Awareness
• Structured Decision Making
• Look at data and be curious
• Individuation. Get to know
people from other groups through
repeated conversations
Pennsylvania DMC Youth/ Law
Enforcement Forums and Curriculum
Open and Honest Dialogue between Youth and Law Enforcement
• Panel Discussions with Youth and Officers• Small Group Workshops• Adolescent Development, Youth Trauma
and De-escalation Trainings• Youth session “Think About it First”• Role Play exercise
• PA Jurisdictions eligible for financial support for DMC Activities
JUSTICE
IT IS NOT ABOUT WHO IS IN THE ROOM.
IT IS ABOUT WHO IS LEADING THE ROOM.
DIVERSITY
Rhonda McKitten, Esq.Director, DMC Corporation
Stoneleigh Fellow, Philadelphia Police